Blog Topic: Restaurant News

Grub Notes: 1000 Faces to Open New Location Downtown Next Monday

By Hillary Brown | November 6, 2017 12:55pm

Photo Credit: Hillary Brown

Back in May, we reported on local coffee roaster 1000 Faces' plans to renovate and move into the building at 510 N. Thomas St. downtown that used to house Good Dirt. Work has moved along fairly quickly, and although 1000 Faces didn't meet its original goal of being open by September, the space is looking good, and it'll begin serving coffee next Monday, Nov. 13, with a soft-open week.

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Grub Notes: Peter Dale Is Opening a New Restaurant on Chase Street

By Hillary Brown | October 31, 2017 1:30pm

Peter Dale

Love The National but don't go there anymore because, as Yogi Berra is alleged to have said, it's too crowded? Well, you're in luck. Local cheftrepreneur-made-good Peter Dale is opening a new restaurant, Maepole, on Chase Street in early 2018.

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Grub Notes: Now Open: Mama's Boy No. 2, The Office Sports Bar, Fully Loaded Pizza

By Hillary Brown | October 16, 2017 1:47pm

Photo Credit: Mama's Boy/Facebook

As of 7 a.m. this morning, the second location of Mama's Boy (aka Mama's Boy at the Falls) is open for business, at 8851 Macon Hwy., near the intersection with White Oak. The hope, of course, is that having two locations will relieve the brunch wait, and now you can decide if you want your sales tax dollars to go to Clarke or Oconee.

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Grub Notes: Jerry and Krista Slater to Open The Expat in Two Story Coffee Space

By Hillary Brown | October 12, 2017 3:50pm

If there's anything that can dry your tears over beloved coffee shop Two Story Coffee (which always made a lovely pour-over cup) being booted out of its Five Points location, it might be the news of what's taking its place.

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Grub Notes: The Dudes from the Pine Have Two New Projects

By Hillary Brown | August 31, 2017 1:00pm

Photo Credit: Google Streeview

The future home of El Barrio.

One thing Five Points doesn't have at the moment is a Mexican restaurant. (No, Barberitos doesn't count. That's a burrito place. Those things are in different categories.) So the dudes behind The Pine are in the middle of planning for one to open just down the street from them, at the corner of Milledge and Morton, to be called El Barrio Tacos and Tequila.

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Grub Notes: Soul-Food Restaurant Peaches Is Back

By Hillary Brown | August 9, 2017 10:37am

Photo Credit: Peaches/Facebook

If you arrived in Athens after 2012, you probably don't know what I'm talking about, but once upon a time there was a wonderful Southern restaurant called Peaches, on the spot where Saucehouse built its palace of barbecue.

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Grub Notes: UGA Now Has an Au Bon Pain, Mamoun's Falafel Is Coming to Athens and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | July 26, 2017 2:05pm

Photo Credit: m01229/Flickr

If you feel like the only thing missing to make Athens just like an international airport was an Au Bon Pain, you're totally in luck. The Business Learning Community that UGA's Terry College of Business has been putting up for a few years now just added one, in its Amos Hall, and it started operations yesterday.

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Grub Notes: The Brixx Space Has a New Tenant, and More Chains Cometh

By Hillary Brown | June 28, 2017 4:08pm

Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook

The Office Sports Bar and Grill

Have you been walking past the West Washington parking deck/mixed-use building and thinking about the sad, empty space that used to house Brixx? I have. But if everything works out with the lease, it won't be empty for long. The Office Sports Bar and Grill, which operates one other location, in Columbus, is looking to move in. Co-owner Darren Phillips confirmed that negotiations are ongoing.

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Grub Notes: Places to Buy Your Mom Some Brunch

By Hillary Brown | May 12, 2017 3:26pm

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Mother's Day and brunch go together like Halloween and candy corn. I guess. Here are some places offering special things for your moms and meemaws this Sunday. The list will be updated as we see more places.

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Grub Notes: Watkinsville Has Two New Restaurants, Pour and Suncatcher Café

By Hillary Brown | April 27, 2017 4:30pm

Photo Credit: Pour Restaurant & Bar/Facebook

Pour Restaurant & Bar, an offshoot of an Atlanta business by the same name, opened for business early last week at 22 N. Main Street, in the Dolvin building across the street from the courthouse annex in downtown Watkinsville. Renovations have been in the works for a while to transform the space.

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